On Target Two (Issue #23)

Well, fall is just around the corner but we still have plenty of summer shooting news to report.

We’ll give you the Idaho winners from the Grand Pacific at Evergreen the last week in July and the results of the final summer Multiplex shoot as well as the shoot results for the Gun Shoot in Pocatello and the Ontario Snake River Sportsman’s shoot. The weather was very nice for all of the Idaho PITA shooting in August.

Grand Pacific – Evergreen Gun Club in Washington.

Idaho attendance was down at the Grand and so was our Idaho win total but the weather was very nice (but warm) and several Idaho shooters brought hardware back.

Spud Storey took Vet trophies in two of the singles events with scores of 100 and 99. Guy Olson won the Idaho trophy in the White Flyer Handicap with his 95 and Bill Scharnhorst and Mike Rinard were in the shoot-off for the Vet trophy in the handicap championship with their 91’s. Rinard also won the Vet HAA trophy with a 377 score.

114 shooters took advantage of very nice weather over the four days to shoot 90,500 registered targets. That total was up about 5% from last year.

Brian Gooch from Utah edged eight other shooters by one target to take the singles championship with his lone 198. Gooch also was high in the Event 1 singles with 100 and was high in the Event 2 handicap after winning a shoot-off of 97’s.

Brian Lancaster took the handicap championship with 97 after a shoot-off over Gary Hite. Hite captured the Event 6 Handicap high score earlier with his 98.

Spud Storey won the doubles championship with a lone 98 and took the AA trophy in the Event 5 Singles after a shoot-off of 100’s with Body Johnson.

Johnson had a great shoot highlighted by a 100 straight in the Event 3 Doubles and he was the HOA Champion with 1056 X 1100 edging Scott Abo by 2 targets.

Abo took the HAA by a target with 388 and Ryan Hillyard had the top score in two handicaps in a row with scores of 99 and 98.

Gooch and Lancaster earned their PITA 27 yard pins while Gooch and Robert Green earned their first PITA 100 straight pins.

25 shooters took advantage of nice weather to fire at 5500 registered targets. Chester Carter topped the doubles event with his 93 and tied David Poseley for the HOA with 280. Poseley paced the singles with the lone 100 of the tournament. Ken Vanderpool had 95 for the high handicap score of the day. Gene Hunt earned his Idaho PITA 75 straight pin in the singles.

Well, that’s it for this OT2. Next time we will have the results of the September 4th Ontario shoot and the October Multiplex, the two shoots at Boise and Caldwell in November, and perhaps the November and December Multiplex scores. Best wishes for the coming Fall and Winter months.